Yup, I have had Phil from the Classic Edge hone a couple of razors for me and they were scary sharp. I hone my own now and shave with the edge I put on but they are not as sharp as Phil's were. My guess is that the edge was good to go.

You may or may not have bunged the edge by stropping it.

As a beginner you can have tugging and pulling with a shave ready SR because you lack good shaving technique. Well, at least that is what happened to me at the start.

You need a good lather from a brush and shaving soap/cream not canned goo for a start. You need to have a gap between face and the spine of the blade that is 1 to 2 spine widths wide. If you have too big a gap you are scraping not shaving. As little pressure on the blade as you can manage while stretching your skin. Just let the blade do the work.

You can try shaving just a cheek to see if it id technique. If the shave is better you know you need to work on your technique. If it is not better you can slowly and carefully strop the blade, retry the other cheek and see if that improves anything. If none of that works, I think Phil offers a free second honing when you buy the razor from him. Then you can start from square one but this time without stropping the fresh new edge.

Bob